Saw the story on Engadget after I got home from work. There's no way this wasn't timed to come right after the protests. Ars Technica says the people running the site may have actually been complicit in copyright infringement, but only time and trial will tell.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, gcs8 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcsviii@gmail.com">gcsviii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
yah, they took the nuke it from orbit approach. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Collin Pruitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:collin@collinp.com" target="_blank">collin@collinp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Anyone else heard about this? The government seized <a href="http://megaupload.com" target="_blank">megaupload.com</a><br>
<a href="http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/" target="_blank">http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/</a><br>
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